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Henry Moore
English Sculptor
Born: Jul 30, 1898
Died: Aug 31, 1986
Art Become Carving Fundamental Work You
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The hole connects one side to the other, making it immediately more three-dimensional. A hole can itself have as much shape-meaning as a solid mass. Henry Moore
Other Side Immediately Solid Three-Dimensional More Mass Making Itself Hole Much Connects
To know one thing, you must know the opposite. Henry Moore
You Must One Thing Know Opposite Thing
Since the Gothic, European sculpture has become overgrown with moss, weeds - all sorts of surface excrescences which completely concealed shape. It has been Brancusi's special mission to get rid of this overgrowth and to make us once more shape-conscious. Henry Moore
Become Once Once More Has-Been More Weeds Shape Concealed Since Mission Moss Make Sort Surface Gothic Been Get Which Us Sculpture Rid Special European
Cezanne had an enormous influence on everyone in that period; there was a change in attitudes to art. People found him disturbing because they didn't like their existing ideas being challenged and overturned. Cezanne was probably the key figure in my lifetime. Henry Moore
Art Change People Key Enormous Everyone Disturbing Lifetime Had Attitudes Like Ideas Period Him Because Existing Being Influence Figure Found Challenged
Sculpture is an art of the open air. Daylight, sunlight, is necessary to it, and for me, its best setting and complement is nature. Henry Moore
Art Best Nature Me Setting Complement Air Sunlight Open Daylight Sculpture Necessary
Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing. Henry Moore
Art Struggle Discipline Drawing Oneself Understand Much Fundamental
The violent quarrel between the abstractionists and the surrealists seems to me quite unnecessary. All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both classical and romantic elements - order and surprise, intellect and imagination, conscious and unconscious. Henry Moore
Art Good Me Imagination Unnecessary Classical Seems Both Unconscious Abstract Contained Between Quarrel Surprise Intellect Surrealist Quite Just Order Romantic Good Art Elements Conscious Violent
It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work. Henry Moore
Work Art Mistake Speak Job Release About Write Tension His Very Often Sculptor Painter Needed
So with the young African artists. What they have to learn from tribal art is not how to copy the traditional forms, but the confidence that comes from knowing that somewhere inside them there should be the vitality which enabled their fathers to produce these extraordinary and exciting forms. Henry Moore
Art Confidence Tribal Somewhere Young Extraordinary Fathers Inside Vitality Exciting Knowing Learn How Traditional Artists African Which Forms Them Produce Should Copy
Comparing Oceanic art generally with Negro art, it has a livelier, thin flicker, but much of it is more two-dimensional and concerned with pattern making. Yet the carvings of New Ireland have, besides their vicious kind of vitality, a unique spatial sense, a bird-in-a-cage form. Henry Moore
Art Sense Kind Besides Vitality Carving More Generally New Concerned Making Ireland Form Vicious Pattern Much Spatial Flicker Unique Comparing Thin Two-Dimensional
There are universal shapes to which everybody is subconsciously conditioned and to which they can respond if their conscious control does not shut them off. Henry Moore
Control Everybody Respond Shapes Does Subconsciously Conditioned Off Which Them Conscious Shut Universal
In Giacometti's work, the armature has once again become the life-line of the sculpture, and also, he's brought back to sculpture a nervous sensitivity which the 'pure carving' side of sculpture can lose sight of altogether. Henry Moore
Work Pure Nervous Become Lose Side Back Once Sight Carving Brought He Also Altogether Which Again Sensitivity Sculpture

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